§ The result
1 point separates Criteria and HiredScore.
Criteria (Assessment) edges HiredScore (Sourcing) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 53 to 52. Criteria leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while HiredScore leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to HiredScore — Criteria 48, HiredScore 55, on an 18% weight — which is 72% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
§ The record
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, HiredScore under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Criteria is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Criteria | HiredScore |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2006 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · HiredScore 55
1.3 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · HiredScore 55
1.1 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · HiredScore 35
0.8 weighted points to Criteria
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · HiredScore 65
0.6 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · HiredScore 60
0.5 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · HiredScore 30
0.3 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus HiredScore.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | HiredScore | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 65 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 52 (F) | +1 | +1.1 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Criteria | HiredScore | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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